Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1		The Great Wen
Chapter 2		The Railway Age Arrives in London
Chapter 3		Railway Mania and the Great Exhibition
Chapter 4		Regulation Catches up with the Railways
Chapter 5		The Mainline System is Completed
Chapter 6		Making Roads Down to Hell – The Underground
Chapter 7		Victorian Dynamism
Chapter 8		The Threat of the Tram
Chapter 9		La Belle Epoche
Chapter 10		The Great War
Chapter 11		Grouping and Recession
Chapter 12		London’s Transport
Chapter 13		Electrification and the Long Distance Commuter
Chapter 14		The Second World War
Chapter 15		Austerity and Nationalisation
Chapter 16		Rationalising the Railway
Chapter 17		Expansion and Contraction
Chapter 18		Sectorisation and Privatisation
Chapter 19		The Future

Appendix I

Appendix II

Chronology

Bibliography